JP2006069974A - Face lotion or cosmetic produced by using weakly acidic concentrated mineral liquid as stock water - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide face lotion or cosmetic effective for activating skin cell weakened by UV-induced skin troubles or aging. <P>SOLUTION: The face lotion or cosmetic is a weakly acidic concentrated mineral liquid produced by adding 25% aqueous solution of sulfuric acid to vermiculite used as a raw material at a weight ratio of 4:3-4 and leaving to stand for about 2-4 days under sporadic stirring or heating for 1-4 hr at 100°C under stirring to obtain a strongly acidic concentrated mineral liquid containing the elements and oxides of Fe, Al, Mg, Si, K, Na, etc., of the vermiculite dissolved into the aqueous solution of sulfuric acid, and diluting the concentrated liquid with an acidic reducing water obtained by the electrolysis of pure water in a 3-chamber electrolytic cell to obtain a diluted mineral liquid having pH of 4.5-5.5 corresponding to a weakly acidic state. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

The present invention provides a highly acidic mineral concentrate extracted from vermiculite with an aqueous sulfuric acid solution that can give vitality to skin cells that have been damaged by ultraviolet rays, aging, etc., and has an acidic reduction with a low redox potential. The present invention relates to a skin lotion or a cosmetic product that is diluted with water to form a weakly acidic mineral concentrate, which is used as raw material water.

Ultraviolet rays are classified into three types, UV-A, UV-B, and UV-C, in order of increasing wavelength. Among these, UV-C is absorbed by the ozone layer in the atmosphere, hardly reaches the surface of the earth, and does not affect the skin. However, UV-B causes sunburn, and it causes inflammation when exposed in large quantities. Sunburn. Furthermore, most of UV-B is scattered and absorbed in the epidermis, and only about 10% reaches the dermis, but it activates pigment cells (melanocytes) in the basal layer of the epidermis, producing a lot of melanin pigments, It causes skin problems such as stains, freckles, dullness, and roughness.

On the other hand, UV-A penetrates the epidermis and reaches the dermis. Then, oxygen is changed to active oxygen, which is said to cause aging in the dermis layer, and the collagen fiber layer is cut to cause sagging and wrinkles on the skin, thereby causing aging earlier.

Conventionally, various cosmetics and medicines have been used to prevent or restore skin troubles such as stains, freckles, dullness, and roughness due to ultraviolet rays as described above, and skin aging such as sagging and wrinkles. However, “a lotion or cosmetic using reduced water” disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2002-348208 related to the applicant's patent application is one of them.

Meanwhile, vermiculite weathered with mica-based minerals is dissolved in an inorganic acid aqueous solution to produce a mineral concentrate, and an acidic additive containing the mineral concentrate as a main component is used as a precipitation flocculant for water treatment. Is disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. 1-444363.
JP 2002-348208 A Japanese Examined Patent Publication No. 1-444363

However, the conventional cosmetics and medicines have a problem in that they cannot sufficiently solve skin troubles such as stains, freckles, dullness, and roughness due to ultraviolet rays, and skin aging such as sagging and wrinkles. there were.

The lotion described in Patent Document 1 or reduced water as a raw material for cosmetics has a strong alkaline pH. This strongly alkaline reduced water has excellent flexibility and reducibility, but for skin diseases such as atopy, alkaline lotion or cosmetics do not fit, so there is a problem that there are restrictions on the products to be blended was there.

On the other hand, the mineral concentrate produced by the method disclosed in Patent Document 2 has not been used at present as a raw material water for cosmetics, and has not even been conceived.

The fact that active oxygen is greatly involved in aging of the skin is a fact that is widely taken up in TV and magazine articles and is also known to the general public. Humans originally have the function of generating SOD enzymes that have the effect of decomposing active oxygen, which is the cause of rusting (aging) the body. This SOD enzyme is synthesized in vivo, has a function of decomposing excess active oxygen and suppressing oxidative damage of DNA, protein, carbohydrate, and membrane lipid. However, this SOD enzyme, which is beneficial to the human body, also has a problem that its production ability decreases with age.

In order to compensate for the decreased SOD enzyme as described above, examples of blending various herbal extracts having an SOD-like action with conventional cosmetics were found. However, the various herbal extracts having the SOD-like action have a problem that the expected effect cannot be obtained due to the relaxed action.

The present invention has been invented from the above viewpoint, and dilutes a mineral concentrate extracted from vermiculite whose mica-based mineral is weathered with an aqueous sulfuric acid solution that is a strong acid, using acidic reduced water having a low redox potential. By using this as a weakly acidic mineral concentrate and using it as a cosmetic raw material water, the rich minerals nourish the skin cells and at the same time activate the SOD enzyme, which is a metal-containing enzyme, Excellent skin function such as sagging and wrinkles can be restored to normal skin function, and skin troubles such as stains, freckles, dullness, and roughness can be improved and prevented. It is intended to provide a functioning lotion or cosmetic.

In the present invention, a 25% aqueous sulfuric acid solution is added at a weight ratio of 4: 3-4 to vermiculite, which is a raw material, and the mixture is allowed to stand for 2-4 days with occasional stirring, or heated to 100 ° C. By allowing 1-4 hours to elapse while stirring, the elements and oxides such as Fe, Al, Mg, Si, K, and Na in the vermiculite are obtained by eluting into the sulfuric acid aqueous solution. The mineral concentrate is diluted with acidic reduced water having a low oxidation-reduction potential, and the pH of the diluted mineral concentrate is made weakly acidic from 4.5 to 5.5. The main feature is that it is a lotion or a raw material water for cosmetics.

When the skin lotion or cosmetic of the present invention is used on the skin, electrons in the reduced water are supplied to the skin oxidized by ultraviolet rays so that the oxidized skin returns to the original state, and further the mineral contained in the mineral concentrate Nourishes skin cells, restores vitality of skin cells, promotes turnover (reincarnation of skin cells), and the mineral concentrate contains abundant minerals. Even if the SOD enzyme having an action of decomposing is activated and excessive active oxygen is generated or excessive active oxygen remains, these are decomposed by the action of the SOD enzyme, stains caused by ultraviolet rays, freckles It is possible to prevent or restore skin troubles such as dullness and roughness, and skin aging such as sagging and wrinkles. Moreover, since the mineral concentrate used as the skin lotion or cosmetic raw water of the present invention is weakly acidic, a skin lotion or cosmetic that can be applied to skin diseases such as atopy can be obtained.

When this inventor diluted the mineral concentrate manufactured by the method disclosed by the said patent document 2 1000 times and used it for the plant as agricultural water, many usefulness has been confirmed. Originally, plants grow by photosynthesis using the mineral itself as soil as a base material, and the catalyst in this photosynthesis is a group of minerals. As a matter of course, the mineral concentrate containing a lot of minerals greatly affects the growth of plants. This represents a remarkable effect in plant germination, rooting promotion, leaf / stem / branch elongation, fruit ripening and sugar content enhancement, and the like.

From the effects given to plant cells as described above, the activation effect on human glandular fibroblasts is also expected to be expected, and since it contains a particularly large amount of Fe, Al and Mg as contained components, It turns out that there is a convergence effect. Moreover, it is thought that the cosmetics which mix | blended the mineral concentrate containing a mineral work on the SOD enzyme which is a metal containing enzyme, promote the active oxygen decomposition | disassembly effect | action, and can anticipate the skin aging prevention effect.

The present inventor added a 25% sulfuric acid aqueous solution at a weight ratio of 4: 3-4 to vermiculite, which is a raw material, and left it for about 2-4 days with occasional stirring, or heated to 100 ° C. By stirring for 1 to 4 hours while stirring, elements and oxides such as Fe, Al, Mg, Si, K, and Na in the vermiculite are eluted in a sulfuric acid aqueous solution, and a strongly acidic mineral A concentrate was produced.

The mineral concentrate used in the present invention is extracted from a natural clay mineral called vermiculite (Japanese name: meteorite) in which mica-based minerals are weathered. No organic substances are contained in the mineral concentrate after production.

As the composition of the mineral concentrate rich in contained minerals, Fe, Al, and Mg are particularly abundant, and in addition, 20 or more kinds of minerals such as K, Ti, Ca, P, and Mn were analytically confirmed. In addition, no harmful heavy metals such as As, Pb, Cd, Hg, and Cr were detected. And, the mineral concentrate is light yellow, its specific gravity is 1.1-1.2, and shows strong acidity of pH 0.5-1.0, but when adding normal water and diluting it, Since its pH is almost weakly acidic to neutral, there is no problem in using it as a raw material for cosmetics.

The present inventor made a trial manufacture of a cosmetic containing the mineral concentrate after sufficiently confirming the effectiveness and safety of the mineral concentrate used in the present invention. Originally, the stock solution of strongly acidic mineral concentrate is diluted with water to adjust the pH to near neutrality. However, when blended into cosmetics, taking into account its effect on the skin, electrolyze the diluted water by electrolysis. Water was activated to refine the molecules (microclusters), and acidic reduced water having a low redox potential was used.

The acidic reduced water used in the present invention uses reduced water produced using the three-chamber electrolytic cell A shown in FIG. That is, the electrolytic cell shown in FIG. 1 is provided with an intermediate chamber 5 between the cathode chamber 1 and the anode chamber 2 by disposing the diaphragms 3 and 4 with a space therebetween, and the cathode chamber 1 and the anode chamber. 2 are formed by disposing a cathode electrode 6 and an anode electrode 7 respectively. When pure water is put into the cathode chamber 1 and the anode chamber 2 and citric acid is put into the intermediate chamber 5 and electrolysis is performed, reduced water is generated in the cathode chamber 1, while acidic water is generated in the anode chamber 2. Is generated.

Usually, when producing strong alkaline ionized water, sodium chloride is put in the intermediate chamber 5, but in the reducing water used in the present invention, by adding citric acid into the intermediate chamber 5, acidity in the cathode chamber 1 Succeeded in producing reduced water. The acid put into the intermediate chamber 5 can generate acidic reduced water even with ascorbic acid other than citric acid or other organic acids.

In the present invention, acidic reduced water generated in the cathode chamber 1 is used. When the pH and redox potential (ORP) at the time of the production of the reduced water are measured, the pH is 3.5 to 5.0, the ORP is about -200 to -550 mV, and the negative redox It was found that the solution was reduced water having a moderately acidic pH while having a potential. In general, the oxidation-reduction potential when the pH is moderately acidic shows a positive numerical value. However, as described above, the reduced water employed in the present invention is a special water having a negative oxidation-reduction potential. it can.

The pH of the diluted mineral concentrate diluted with the acidic reducing water is kept at about the same weak acidity as that of skin of 4.5 to 5.5. it can.

And the pH of the mineral concentrate diluted with the acidic reduced water obtained by the present invention is set to 5 weak acidity, and the weakly acidic mineral concentrate 100% is left as it is (no components such as fragrance are added) Condition), applied to the hand of a 20-year-old woman and tested. And the progress was investigated for changes and sustainability of stains and wrinkles with the brand name "Beauty Scope EX-400" (the latest compact high-performance video loupe 40 magnification lens) manufactured by IT Corporation. The results as shown in the photographs of FIGS. 2 to 4 were obtained. That is, the photograph of FIG. 2 shows a state before the mineral concentrate is applied, and the skin is turned up like a scale (white part) and is dry (dry), and further dullness is seen. The photograph of FIG. 3 is a photograph three days after the mineral concentrate was applied every day, and the overall dryness was improved, but the dullness was not removed. Moreover, the photograph of FIG. 4 is the photograph 10 days after apply | coating the said mineral concentrate every day, and it has confirmed that the part with a rust disappeared, the texture became finer, and the dullness disappeared.

From the above tests, it was found that the mineral concentrate diluted with acidic reducing water has the power to heal not only to fix blemishes, wrinkles, etc., but also to change the skin condition. In addition, eliminating the stuffiness once has the effect of preserving the original quality of the skin, so once the skin has been reduced, the skin surface will not become stuffy again, and the skin will be changed to a stuffy material that is less stuffy. I found out that

From the above, confirmation that the mineral concentrate used in the present invention has durability and immunity was obtained. In addition, although the said test is a thing at the time of using the said mineral concentrate as a lotion as it is, even if it uses the said mineral concentrate with raw material water of cosmetics, such as cream, it is thought that the same effect is acquired. .

Then, the mineral concentrate was diluted 10,000 times with the acidic reducing water, and a lotion and a cream were made as a trial using this as raw material water, and used by several monitors.
Here are some of the thoughts I've used:
・ 26 years old (female) I feel that my skin has been dull and my makeup has improved.
・ 29 years old (female) No rough skin, smoother and smoother skin.
・ 28 years old (female) I feel like the stain has faded.

As for skin dullness and stain improvement felt by the monitor, the cell activation effect by the minerals contained in the mineral concentrate nourishing the skin cells restores the vitality of the weakened cells and promotes turnover. It is speculated that this is the result of excreting old cells and melanin in the epidermis. Furthermore, it is speculated that this is the result of the minerals activating the SOD enzyme that has the action of decomposing excess active oxygen, and the decomposition of excess active oxygen that causes skin aging.

In addition, with regard to the improvement of rough skin and the smoothness of the skin, the pH is adjusted to be weakly acidic to provide a bactericidal and antibacterial effect to prevent the growth of germs on the skin, and Mg and Al contained in the mineral concentrate It seems that the astringent action is due to the effect of adjusting the texture of the skin.

It is a schematic explanatory drawing of the three-chamber type electrolytic cell which produces | generates the reducing water used for this invention. It is a photograph which shows the state before apply | coating 100% of the mineral concentrate diluted with the acidic reduced water obtained by this invention as it is to the back of the hand. It is a photograph which shows the state 3 days after apply | coating 100% of the mineral concentrate diluted with the acidic reduced water obtained by this invention as it is to the back of the hand. It is a photograph which shows the state 10 days after apply | coating 100% of the mineral concentrate diluted with the acidic reduced water obtained by this invention as it is to the back of the hand.

Explanation of symbols

A Three-chamber electrolytic cell 1 Cathode chamber 2 Anode chamber 3 and 4 Membrane 5 Intermediate chamber 6 Cathode electrode 7 Anode electrode

Claims (1)

A 25% sulfuric acid aqueous solution is added to the raw material vermiculite in a weight ratio of 4: 3 to 4, and left for about 2 to 4 days with occasional stirring, or 1 while stirring at 100 ° C while heating. A strong acid mineral concentrate obtained by elution of elements and oxides such as Fe, Al, Mg, Si, K, Na, etc. in the vermiculite into the sulfuric acid aqueous solution by allowing -4 hours to pass. It is diluted with acidic reduced water having a low redox potential obtained by electrolyzing pure water using a three-chamber electrolytic cell, and the pH of the diluted mineral concentrate is 4.5 to 5. No. 5 weakly acidic lotion or cosmetic using the weakly acidic mineral concentrate as raw water.

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